Rebecca Belmore Somewhere Else

Date(s): Sep 12 to Oct 17 2015

Location: Salle Daniel-Dion et Su Schnee

Exhibition

E. Rojas, 2010

For her guest solo exhibition at OBORO, Rebecca Belmore draws from the documentation of past performances as a point of departure for creating new sculptural works, investigating notions of presence and absence. Situated somewhere between the live experience and the existing documentation, this exhibition is a research on the endurance of an image over an action. “I never paid much attention to the documentation of my performances, I was too focussed and concerned about being present and making the work. The documentation that I do have exists because of others, usually my hosts. Some of this material is good, some not so good. It is what it is, and I have made much use of it, especially in the context of the artist talk. The documentation of these artworks, captured usually by one point of view, one solitary lens has oddly become stronger than my own memory of the lived experience, especially the earlier works. Through the practice of projecting these images and speaking of them over and over again – places me, the artist in the position of performer once more – somehow present and distant at the same time.”

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Further readings:

E. Rojas, 2010

Rebecca Belmore (Anishnaabe) is a member of the Lac Seul First Nation at Frenchman’s Head, Ontario. Born in Upsala, Ontario, Canada in 1960, she currently resides in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Rebecca Belmore’s disarmingly elegant works represent and engage the resistance of Indigenous peoples. Her performances, sculptures, videos, photographs and installations evoke the connections between bodies, land, and language, and the violence that colonialism has enacted upon them.

http://www.rebeccabelmore.com/home.html